The Great UAE Visa Freeze: When Dubai’s Velvet Rope Turned Into a Global Game of Musical Chairs
Dubai, the city that built the world’s tallest billboard to itself and still ran out of space for irony, has quietly tightened a velvet rope into a noose. The “UAE visa ban” that diplomats now murmur about over lukewarm canapés is less a single decree than an evolving mood swing: some passports are suddenly radioactive,…